If it is any help, all 3 of my 35mm 'analogue' cameras have more on film than in the viewfinder. Indeed, this was clear from the advertising. It has never bothered me because when mounting transparencies, or printing negs, one (almost) always has to lose a bit of image behind the mask. I prefer to have extra image that I can lose at my discretion, then for it to be 100% correct and to have to lose carefully composed image when mounting (meaning that things which shouldn't end up bleeding off the edge of the shot).
I would assume that, certainly in a 35mm format digi, the economics of manufacturing would lead to exactly the same 'erring on the small side' for the viewfinder part of the system (which is the same as in the analogue cameras, after all), so that either customers do not complain that they are missing parts of the images that they composed through the viewfinder, or that assembly of the cameras does not become stupidly expensive in order to achieve 100% accuracy. Incidentally, I am sure that most of you have shared my frustration at finding that different transparency mounts crop different amounts of image... even within the same manufacturer... the more "extra" image i get the handier (until the point that things that were excluded from the shot make it into the crop). Giles Stokoe photographer/photojournalist. See some images at http://www.stokoe.co.uk > From: George Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:31:55 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PRODIG] framing difference > > > On 23 Apr 2004, at 11:09, Janus van Helfteren wrote: >>> >> I have explained the whole story , which bit dont you get ?, > > The bit about paralax for a start. > >> this is unaceptable in relation to an image that looks correct >> (taking into account angle of paralax ) in the view finder . we have >> jig mo >> unted and tested this . > > Are your cameras rangefinders or SLR's? > >> I have bought a lot , ie 21 cameras all of which it seems have the >> ccd mounted 'off centre' .....some more than others . I wanted to know >> if anyone else has had this problem ... it seems its not uncommon . >> what I still dont know is how easy is this to rectify , or , indeed >> can it be. >> > Another bit I don't get, is how can anyone answer this if no one knows > if we are talking about a pocket digital or an H1? > It's Friday. Time for a drink. > > Cheers > > George Brooks > > http://www.georgebrooks.net > > > =============================================================== > GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
